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- Richard Linklater cast his daughter Lorelei Linklater as Samantha because she always sang and danced around the house and wanted to be in his movies.
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Jan 3, 2024 · At the heart of this cinematic journey is Richard Linklater's daughter, Lorelei Linklater, who played Samantha in Boyhood, Mason's sister. This background led her to eagerly seek a part in Boyhood, seeing it as an opportunity to step into the world of acting under her father's guidance.
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- Ellar Coltrane
Richard Linklater's daughter Lorelei plays Mason's sister, Samantha. Production began in 2002 and finished in 2013, with Linklater's goal to make a film about growing up. The project began without a completed script, with only basic plot points and the ending written initially.
Jun 7, 2024 · And so it was that we saw Mason, played by Ellar Coltrane, getting older and taller and edging towards college, alongside his big sister, Samantha, played by the writer-director's daughter,...
- 15 Boyhood Was Shot Over 12 Years
- 14 Linklater Almost Gave Up on The Idea Before It Began
- 13 Boyhood Required A Title Change
- 12 Patricia Arquette Bonded with Her Movie Children
- 11 Samantha Is Played by Richard Linklater’s Daughter
- 9 Mason, Sr. Was Based on Richard Linklater and Ethan Hawke’s Own Fathers
Boyhood Shot For Several Days Each Year
There are many movies that trace decades in the life of a character, like Forrest Gump or Citizen Kane. However, Boyhood told such a story in a wholly original way. The production of Boyhood lasted 12 years, from May 2002 to August 2013. Although these 12 years comprised roughly 4,000 days, the Boyhoodteam only shot for a total of 45 days. This is a pretty normal amount of time for a feature film shoot, but it’s usually not spread over more than a decade. Linklater would bring the actors toge...
The Director's Last-Minute Epiphany Saved Boyhood
After becoming a father, Linklater decided that he had a perspective on childhood that he wanted to tell in a movie. However, when considering how to go about this, he realized that coming-of-age films can only really deal with a limited time in a child's life. Linklater noted that it is impossible to ask a seven-year-old child actor to play their age at the beginning of the movie, and then play a 12-year-old at the end of the movie. The director felt that every one of a child's school years...
The Best Picture Winner 12 Years A Slave Led To Linklater Reconsidering The Title
When shooting started, Richard Linklater was calling the movie The Untitled 12 Year Project. The meta title stuck for a while before it was simply shortened to 12 Years. This sense, not only because it relates to the coming-of-age story over this period of time, but also helping to cement the unusual production style which ended up being a big selling point for the movie. As perfect as the title seemed, the decision was eventually made to change it to Boyhood to avoid any confusion with the O...
Arquette Lived With Ellar Coltrane's Family To Form A Familial Connection
With the actors only filming the movie together for roughly a week every year, there was not a lot of time to form a bond. However, Patricia Arquette went out of her way to form a connection with both Ellar Coltrane and Lorelei Linklater as a way to make their dynamic as mother and children more effective. In order to do this, Arquette lived with Coltrane's family and took the kids on errands with her. Arquette's off-screen bonding with the children also made it into the movie itself. There a...
Lorelei Linklater Also Wanted Her Character Killed Off
Mason’s older sister, Samantha, was played by Lorelei Linklater, the daughter of director Richard Linklater because she’d been pestering him to put her in one of his movies for years. It is also likely that the director saw this as a benefit to the long production schedule of the movie as he would have an actor in the main cast who was close to him and could ensure they stayed investing in the project for over a decade. Unfortunately, that proved not to be the case. After three or four years...
Various Actors Drew From Real Experiences
While Richard Linklater was the writer and director of the project, he followed his usual process of involving the actors in the building of an authentic story. The cast of Boyhood played a big role in shaping their characters and thus the overall story. Ethan Hawke and Patricia Arquette both went through divorces, remarriages, and the arrival of new children during the course of production, which helped to steer the ship for their characters. The father figure in the movie, Mason, Sr., was b...
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May 25, 2024 · When casting Mason's sister, Samantha, Linklater stayed close to home. Lorelei Linklater, the director's daughter, was not a professional actor, but her father trusted her to carry such a...
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- Ellar Coltrane
- Richard Linklater
Jul 10, 2014 · In between, he goes to school; argues with his sister, Samantha (Lorelei Linklater, the director’s daughter); and watches his mother, Olivia (Patricia Arquette), struggle with work and men...
Sep 3, 2014 · Like Coltrane, whose parents divorced when he was 9, Mason’s parents are divorced. His mother raises him and his sister Samantha (played by Lorelei Linklater, the director’s daughter), and in the course of the film she dates a string of violent men.
